[Pkg-giraffe-discuss] Kopano etc.

[Carsten Schoenert]

Hello Marco,

On 27.10.2016 16:02, Marco Costantino wrote:
> Guido,
> 
> For as much as I would like to continue building the packages myself
> if we can have some prebuilt already it would help massively. I am
> constrained by time as I have a full time job I have to do too...

I'm on that problem. But like you I also got a normal day job need and
need to get some free time for the needed preparations. It's not done in
some minutes.

> Also something I did not understand so far: why cannot the packages
> be built against an existing released Debian version? Say 8?

Simply as this isn't prepared yet. And as we first want to get the
packages into the next Debian release we put our energy there. Once the
packages got tested enough we will take time to prepare a so called
backport.

The workflow is more or less the same like now. One difference, use a
jessie [+jessie-backports] chroot for building and fixing build issues.

> The reason is that this way I can install them on a production-copy
> like for like environment where I have everything else running already
> and it would be very easy to make sure I test kopano properly...

Sure, understandable. But we are not on that step yet.
You can try to create package for a Jessie system. But this needs at
least some skills about packaging. But the way starts with a first step. :)

-- 
Regards
Carsten Schoenert